Monthly Archives: June 2014

A couple of years back we told you about the Orée Board, a wooden Bluetooth keyboard. Since that post, the company has upgraded its product and introduced the Orée Board 2 as well as expanded their customization options.

We’ve all suffered from lost phone syndrome at one point or another, haven’t we? Back of the sofa cushions, yesterday’s coat pocket, a bag at the end of the rainbow. It’s just one of those frustrating things that can happen, especially when we’re on our way out of the door to catch a train/plane/bus. But now there’s an app which can help you find your phone in an instant without having to make a call, and it’s totally free.

Summer time is a time for moving and home renovations. Whether it’s a new house or an old one, painting the walls really stamps it as your own. But deciding what color to go with or how that perfect shade of magenta will really look once it’s applied is anyone’s guess. With the Dulux Visualizer app, you won’t have to guess anymore thanks to some very clever augmented reality tech.

[Giveaway now ended! See who won HERE, and check out our brand new August giveaway HERE! It’s that time of the year again, when geese are geese, and summer giveaways inspire our poetic spirit. Or something. So we’re delighted to kick off our new Red Ferret Summer Giveaway season with the stonking prize of a Lenovo G505s Laptop. Yes, we’ve partnered with the mighty AMD Processors to supply this top class Windows laptop to one lucky winner in the giveaway…

We don’t often do crowdfunding posts here, for reasons we’ve explained before, but this fully funded gadget caught our eye because it’s a real cool piece of work. The developers have basically looked at just about all the major accessories you get for smartphones and crammed them into one keychain device. Very smooth.

In today’s age of paperless transactions, it’s a bit of a surprise when we find that there are times when we need to deal with actual paper. Shocking. Official documents like bills, receipts and the like are still being printed on paper, and they’re bound to need scanning at some point, especially if you deal with old fashioned operations like banks. However all is not lost, because you can now use your smartphone camera and a cool app to act…

Some things are just too cool to ignore, and especially when they combine the things we love the most. The smooth tech of now, with the function and design of the past. This clever product is one of those which manages to do this with a whole lot of style. Prepare to be transported elegantly back to the 80s.

The worst thing ever is trying to take a picture of yourself by yourself. But what else can you do when you simply have to have one of those crucial #SELFIE moments? Having found the Muku Shuttr remote I think my days of stretched arm contortions are finally coming to an end.

If you’re getting frequent flat tires on your bicycle trips then you should seriously consider changing your ride, or your route maybe? But if parting with your motorless two-wheeler is difficult, then at least embrace some new technology to get rid of your flat tire problems.

Veteran gadget maker Parrot yesterday rolled out the latest in its product range, a new, super easy to fly quadcopter called the Rolling Spider, and we were there to give it a quick test run. Quirky French name aside, the new toy is actually really cool in some ways, especially since we managed to keep it flying for more than our typical 5 seconds – bang! – routine.

A new service has launched which aims to make it much easier for people living in the EU to make a request to Google to remove their information from the search results. This ‘right to be forgotten’, as it’s called, comes after a ruling by the European court which explicitly gave people this power over the information kept about them online.

It’s summer time. Time to enjoy the great outdoors. The natural world. Where once your phone runs out of power, it’s gone. Sure you could charge it up again in your car, but that could prove problematic if your nearest car park is the other side of a range of mountains. Which is why this new product is so cool. It turns fire into electricity.

Two weeks ago I bought a vintage 35mm camera from the flea market, which is lots of fun to play with. But if I had known about the Konstruktor DIY Kit from the Lomography people, I would definitely have chosen one of them instead.

Using the incognito mode in Chrome sure has its privacy perks, but it does have its limitations, sinces it doesn’t save bookmarks privately as well. Enter the Hush extension. Now you can set a password for your bookmarks when you work in incognito mode, and keep everything totally private. After downloading the extension, you’ll need to open an incognito window. There’s a prompt to go to the Extension Manager to enable extensions you might need. Click on that and tick…